Ted Cruz: “Third quarter of 2018, I raised $12 million in hard money.”

“By the way, I, I, when in politics, you don't usually win when you're down three to one, just so people understand how much outside influence money came in. So let Me give you a little bit of the math. Third quarter of 2018, I raised $12 million in hard money. People going to my website contributing money. That was, at the time, the record for the most hard money any Senate candidate had raised in a single quarter in the history of the state of Texas.” (16:21–16:27)

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